Thursdays That Were Fridays...A Spring Poem

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Sunshine

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0 posted 2012-04-13 08:53 PM

Thursdays That Were Fridays…A Spring Poem

When the economy had turned sour
you would not let me follow in kind
so there were good times on Fridays
when a matinee seemed in order
but lunch first! A margarita to start
when you allowed that giggling girls
were always an awesome start
to any movie, no matter the serious
or mysterious,
and you were a mistress to mystery
loving the deepest of mind melding
thrillers.

Quite possibly the potential is there
for the masses to have forgotten you,
even “us”, as if we never were, but your
ripples still stir the pond in my pondering,
and the frogs have returned early this spring,
to croak over the remains of you that linger
through spring, for you oh so loved spring.

Maybe I think of you specifically today because
a friend not so new to me (but would have been new
to you) found solace in the loss of her mother today;
a mother who did not remember her, nor any of the
children born of her; and I cannot help but think,
oh poor dear, she is pleased because her mother
no longer suffers; oh poor dear, the depth is waiting…

and I think of you, my friend, for it was only your body
that gave in, and up, and out, so sharp minded as you were
regardless of the medicinal means to keep you comfortable;
so much so you wanted to see the moon one last time,
to wing it into winter; knowing
Spring

was just minute hours away,
for you oh so loved spring.

~*~

© KRJ 4-13-12
In memory of
Louise Ryan

JL
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1 posted 2012-04-13 09:03 PM

What a beautiful tribute!
Beautiful, Sunshine.

JL

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,and with all your mind. Love your neighbor as yourself.
Maranatha!

JerryPat2
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2 posted 2012-04-13 09:16 PM

I hardly know what to say, Karilea. These kind of "remembrances" have a tendency to mist the eyes and put a frown on this old weathered face. It happened this time. Nice thoughts concerning your dear friend. She is smiling.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

ebonygirl
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3 posted 2012-04-14 01:45 AM

She must have been a very, very special friend.
A beautiful tribute,
ms. e

Martie

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4 posted 2012-04-14 06:06 PM

Dear Sissie...your love for Louis is so clear in this beautiful poem...I also know how much she must have loved you...and still does.

Marchmadness
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5 posted 2012-04-17 04:05 AM

Everyone should have such a friend. Karilea.
Ida

ethome
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6 posted 2012-04-17 05:15 AM

Beautiful tribute!
It surely got the ripples in my pond pondering.
Superb Karilea

Eric

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7 posted 2012-04-17 05:17 AM

Beautiful tribute!
You're a wonderful friend.

Eric

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secondhanddreampoet
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8 posted 2012-04-17 08:08 AM

absolutely fine 'tribute' write !

latearrival
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9 posted 2012-04-21 03:47 PM

I had such a friend,I wish I could express our friendship as well as you do for yours.

jo

Sunshine

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10 posted 2012-04-21 04:15 PM

I want to thank all of you for sharing a moment with Louise and me. We had many such times...and we often found that between our physical breaks in time when I could not be in her presence, our thoughts were still linked.

Louise was pretty much confined to her home the last five years of her life. God blessed me with "time off" that I might spend more time with her in person, which was a gift to me, much more than her, I am sure.

He blessed me with many memories that I had to store...

and Jo? Darlin' girl....just start talking to your friend in your mind....let it all out. Therein is the story. I cannot say this is a poem...

but it is a memory that I am hard put to lay away the substance of, so they will continue.

Love, K

Spiros Zafiris
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11 posted 2012-04-21 09:19 PM

..bravo Sunshine, for expressing
your love so well..an honor to read..

..spiros

JamesMichael
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12 posted 2012-04-22 12:31 PM

A beautiful flow of words...fine title...James

Margherita
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13 posted 2012-04-22 09:30 AM

A most beautiful song of your loving heart, dear Karilea. I enjoyed this deeply. She now breathes perennial Spring fragrances ...

Love,
Margherita

Startime1955
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14 posted 2012-04-22 04:23 PM

Oh Sunshine how I have missed the beauty of your words and how they gently embrace those you love...great to read you again...

suthern

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15 posted 2012-06-04 11:58 AM

but your
ripples still stir the pond in my pondering,

I'm so glad they do... and that you share them with us. What a beautiful tribute!

Tracey
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16 posted 2012-06-09 11:53 PM

what a beautiful poem for your friend. I'm sure she would have been thrilled and touched to read it

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